God Isn’t Gloomy

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

If none of God’s purposes can be frustrated, then he must be the happiest of all beings.

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0:00.0	October 2. God isn't gloomy.
0:06.6	The Lord brings the Council of the Nations to nothing.
0:10.7	He frustrates the plans of the peoples.
0:14.6	The Council of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.
0:21.6	Our God is in the heavens.
0:24.6	He does all that he pleases.
0:28.6	Psalm 115, 3.
0:31.6	The implication of this text is that God has the right and power to do whatever makes him happy.
0:43.0	That is what it means to say that God is sovereign.
0:48.8	Think about it for a moment.
0:50.1	If God is sovereign and can do anything he pleases,
0:55.0	then none of his purposes can be frustrated.
0:59.0	The Lord brings the council of the nations to nothing.
1:04.0	He frustrates the plans of the peoples.
1:07.0	The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.
1:16.6	Psalm 33, 10, and 11.
1:20.6	And if none of his purposes can be frustrated, then he must be the happiest of all beings. This infinite divine happiness is the fountain
1:34.3	from which the Christian hedonist drinks
1:38.3	and longs to drink more deeply.
1:41.3	Can you imagine what it would be like if God who ruled the world were not happy?
1:49.7	What if God were given to grumbling and pouting and depression like some Jack in the Beanstalk
1:57.2	giant in the sky? What if God were frustrated and despondent and gloomy and dismal and
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